Looking Outwards 06

http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/artwork/1265

I have always been a fan of simplicity in art and design. All the while providing enough substance to hold the attention of the viewer. I think this piece by Herbert W. Franke does this quite well. After all, it is only a plain white canvas with many squares randomly placed. However, in this simply idea he gives the audience a fun moment to look at his work. He does this by changing the sizes of the squares and letting them overlap, giving the piece an added dimension. Now each different viewer can see something personal in the random amalgamation of squares.

As far as the actually production of the piece, I would imagine, with whichever program he used, he used arrays to hold various sizes and a “random” command to place and call different sizes from the array. He describes the process as drawing and then generating it digitally.